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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:08 PM
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For $10,000, would you...
(men) change your name to John Rumsfeld, or (women) to Condeleeza Ice?

Accepting the money would mean agreeing, at pain of ruinous lawsuit, to keep the name for the rest of your life, legally and in every other way.

(And yes, this offer is purely hypothetical.)
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:08 PM
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1. No.
That'd cost at least a million, tax free. :P
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:09 PM
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2. Not a chance
I don't think I would do that for any amount of money. I could just never see taking a joke name.
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:10 PM
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3. Sure! I live in Australia - no-one gives a fuck.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:11 PM
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4. You need to add a few more 0000000 on the end
Then I might consider it.

I mean, if I made the league change I'd need enough money so I could move to a remote part of the world and live the life of luxury in a world where people don't on television and have no idea who these people are.

That could be quite expensive
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:16 PM
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5. Nope.
Never.......under any circumstances!

:puke:
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:38 PM
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6. What's in a name?
I'd do it, but 10 grand seems a little light.

$50,0000 would make me much more likely, and $100,000 would seal the deal.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 05:02 PM
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7. Absolutely
A name is just a name. I'd either give the proceeds to politicians who could change the system or indulge myself.

It's not that I'm willing to sell my soul, I just think a name is superficial and meaningless

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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 05:04 PM
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8. nope, ten grand isn't enough for me....nt
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 06:54 PM
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9. pay me up-front.
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Gatchaman Donating Member (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 06:56 PM
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10. For enough money, I'll change my name to Ronald Fucking Reagan
with the "Fucking" as the actual middle name. $10,000 wouldn't be enough compensation for the general hassle (let alone social implications) of changing ones name though.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 09:55 PM
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17. Who the fuck are you?
"I'm Ronald Fucking Reagan".

:rofl:
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:09 PM
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11. for 5g
i will tattoo it on my ass.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 09:56 PM
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18. I've been playing WoW too much. I read that as "five gold"
and I thought, "damn, that's not very much"
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 11:13 PM
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23. nah, it's gangsterese for "grand"
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 11:35 PM
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24. lol, yeah, I realized it was "grand" right after. But that's how I first
read it
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:38 PM
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12. I would think about it.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:48 PM
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13. Nope
I've grown attached to my name over the years...I've had it for a long time. Plus, $10,000 wouldn't do much; it'd be gone to bills within a week or two and then what?

I'd be stuck.

Nope. Not worth it.

Besides, I couldn't bear introducing myself as 'Condoleeeeeeeeza'.

:scared:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:58 PM
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14. Probably, yeah.
Edited on Tue Sep-19-06 07:58 PM by primate1
Changing my name from what it is now to John Rumsfeld would probably make a lot of people here plotz, too, which would just be even more amusing.
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 08:03 PM
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15. not for 10k...add some zeros and yep, I would do it
what was it the bard said:

something about

a roses by any other name
would still smell as sweet

sumpin like dat
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 09:57 PM
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19. Add some zeroes and a one in front of that and we'll do it
to paraphrase Bender the Robot from Futurama (aka Bender Bending Rodriguez)
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 10:27 PM
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22. sure and every day can be Halloween
:bounce:
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 09:49 PM
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16. Nope
It only works out to $11,264.64 CAN.

Maybe in the days when $10,000 US worked out to be $1,000,000 CAN...
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 09:58 PM
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20. We were just sighing and reminiscing about the "good ole exchange days" on
our last trip to Bayfield. :hi:
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 10:02 PM
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21. I'd need high seven figures for that.
I have a price, but it's way above a lousy ten grand.
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